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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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